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STARKS PASSES THEM ALL FOR LAST TO FIRST USCS CHEROKEE SPEEDWAY WIN

GAFFNEY,
SC - October 1, 2016 – Trey Starks of Puyallup, WA made a statement Saturday
night in the 20thAnniversary United Sprint Car Series
Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented by K&N Filters race at Cherokee Speedway by
coming from the 20thand last starting spot to take the
lead on lap 18 of the 30 lap race. He then charged the final 12 laps to park
his Jeff McCall owned #23 in thewww.Rockauto.comUSCSVictory Lane after his second straightUSCSwin. The victory was the 20-year
driver’s career fifthUSCSfeature win. Starks
was the apparent winner of the Engler Machine and Tool First ten-lap Heat Race,
but he failed to report to the scales for the post-race weigh in, and he was
disqualified. That put him on the tail of the 20-car starting line-up for
the 30-lap main event. That’s a long way to go, and a+++++++++++++ short time to get
there!

“This
team is awesome because they never gave up,” Starks said. “I just tried
to keep moving forward, keep my head down and pass as many cars as I
could. I really love coming down here to race with these guys. I
really love the tracks down here because we just have little quarter-mile bull
rings in Washington state.”

National
Sprint Car Hall of Fame Inductee Danny Smith of Chillicothe, OH finished in
second place after a late race battle for that spot with 11-timeUSCSNational
Champion Terry Gray of Bartlett, TN, took the third spot. The defendingUSCSNational Champion Morgan Turpen of
Cordova, TN was fourth and Troy Betts of Newark, DE finished fifth.

Terry
Witherspoon of Jacksonville, FL drove home to the sixth spot, and seventh went
to Tony Agin of Naples, FL. Mitch Brown of Brantford, ON Canada was
eighth, with the McLain boys of Indian Trail, NC rounding out the top ten with
2014USCSRookie
of the Year, Brandon McLain taking the ninth spot, and his brother Jake McLain
in tenth place.

In
preliminary action, Lance Moss of Cherryville, NC won the six-lapUSCSHoosier Tire
Speed Dash and the six-lap Mystery Dash was won by the “Ripley Rooster” Jeff
Willingham of Ripley, MS. The winners of the two ten-lap Heat Races were
Tony Agin of Naples, FL in the Brown in the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat,
and Eric Riggins Jr. of Charlotte, NC in theBrown and Miller
Racing SolutionsSecond
Heat.

Lance
Moss took the lead at the start of the 30-lap main event after winning the
K&N Filters Pole Award. Following Moss to complete lap one were
Riggins, Gray, Smith, and Agin. Starks made a bold statement in the
opening tour of Cherokee Speedway, as he went from 20thto 10th.
Turpen joined the top five on lap four, and Starks moved up to seventh.

Starks
just kept moving forward through the field, as he was fifth by lap six, and
fourth by lap 11. Lap 13 saw Starks pass Smith for the third spot.
The only thing that slowed him down was the caution flag that came out on lap
13 when Tim Perry of Mooresville, NC stalled on the race track. Riggins
gave up the second spot on lap 14 when he slowed on the race track with
mechanical issues.

The
restart had Moss leading Starks, Smith, Gray, Turpen, Agin, Witherspoon, Betts,
Brandon McLain, and Brian Thomas of Pendergrass, GA in tow behind him.
When the field went back to green flag action, Starks found his hardest car to
pass of the night in the leader Moss. The caution flag came out on lap 18
when Greg Smyre of Hickory, NC stalled on the front straightaway.

During
the caution period, Moss suddenly turned down pit road and retired his race car
for the evening. That put Starks in the lead as he looked for his second
straight win in as many nights. Starks had no challengers in the 12
remaining laps and he put the exclamation point on a successful weekend with
theUSCSOutlaw Thunder Tour Presented by
K&N Filters.

The
next stop for the 20thAnniversary United Sprint Car Series
Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented by K&N Filters will be on October 8 at “The
Hornet’s Nest,” Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, AL.

For
rules and updated schedule information about the United Sprint Car Series
Outlaw Thunder Tour, or thewww.RockAuto.comUSCS600 Sprint Car Series winged mini
sprints, please visitwww.uscsracing.com or call
the series office at770-460-7223or770-865-6097. You can
also like the United Sprint Car Series Facebook page atUSCSRacing.